Yrsa Daley-Ward, THE CATCH

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Zibby welcomes acclaimed poet and debut novelist Yrsa Daley-Ward to discuss THE CATCH, a darkly whimsical, riveting tale of women daring to live and create with impunity—and the inaugural novel in the Well-Read Black Girl Books series. Yrsa delves into the story, which follows two estranged sisters whose lives are upended when one believes she sees their mother, who was long presumed dead. Yrsa touches on the book’s poetic structure and themes of identity, loss, imagination, and sisterhood, and then shares how the grief of losing her own mother in early adulthood inspired the novel’s emotional core. Finally, she offers powerful advice for aspiring writers.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive
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0:30.3	Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day.
0:36.2	For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:44.8	Here'sa Daily Ward is the author of The Catch, a novel.
0:48.3	She is an acclaimed author and poet best known for The Terrible and Bone.
0:52.4	Her new novel The Catch marks her debut fiction.
0:55.3	Welcome, Yes, Ed.
0:56.4	Thank you so much for coming on Totally Booked with Zimbi to talk about The Catch a novel.
1:01.2	Congratulations.
1:02.4	Thank you.
1:03.1	It's my pleasure.
1:03.9	Thank you for having me.
1:05.2	My pleasure, too.
1:06.4	What a book.
1:07.4	Oh, my gosh.
1:08.2	So you have a very unique writing style.
1:13.8	You are drawn right in. It is so captivating and wow. Really very cool. Very cool. I have lots of questions. Let's start though by
1:22.1	you just telling what the book is about. Yeah, absolutely. So I'm on tour, so I'm getting a little bit better about
1:28.0	keeping this short and succinct. So the catch follows two twin sisters, Clara, and Dempsey,
1:34.6	and a couple of weeks after they were born, their mother just went missing, walked out,
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